51 Quotes by Isaac Hayes

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Ultimate Isaac Hayes ? Can You Dig It?

I'd been hearing things in my head for a long time, but I'd been restricted, ... Now I did what I felt. ... When I had the opportunity to do my own thing, that's when I thought about strings and different chords.

He was cool before it was cool to be cool, 'American Masters' creator and executive producer Susan Lacy stated. ?He left us a storehouse of classics, pure poetry that will live forever because they are, quite simply, among the greatest songs ever sung.

Thanks for saving me from the drive Shaft!

It's a very exciting and validating experience to be recognized ... along with all those giants of the music business.

It was just one of those things in history that you did the right thing at the right time.